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Articles By Syndicated Columnist
Dan Thomas
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Improvement Inside And Out
Taking The First Steps To Living
Green
Making small changes as and when you can puts you firmly on the
road to living a much greener lifestyle. Trying to jump into it all at once can
be counterproductive, in fact, because the subject area is immense and is
growing all the time, Instead , decide what your priorities are. Think about
where it would be easiest for you to begin. Start there and work up to the
bigger or more difficult issues.
Another tip that is super easy to implement is to buy items with less
packaging. Consider for example, what would happen if you bought toilet paper
in double rolls, which contain twice as much paper in a roll than a regular
size rolls. That cuts down the number of cardboard rolls by half, and it also
decreased the amount of plastic that is used to wrap the package. You can
recycle the cardboard tubes that remain. you can slit the plastic wrap open
only at the top of the package and you reuse the plastic wrap as a garbage
bag. Now you have used and recycled the whole product.
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